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Vale Royal Introduction CHESHIRE HISTORIC TOWNS SURVEY Vale Royal Borough Introduction 2003 CHESHIRE HISTORIC TOWNS SURVEY Vale Royal Borough Introduction 2003 Environmental Planning Cheshire County Council Backford Hall Backford Chester CH1 6PZ These reports are the copyright of Cheshire County Council and English Heritage. We would like to acknowledge the assistance of Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies, Frodsham and District Local History Group, Winsford Local History Society, Andrew Fielding, Lion Salt Works Project Director and Dr Chris Lewis, University of Liverpool, in the preparation of these reports. The archive is held by the Cheshire County Sites and Monuments Record. The Ordnance Survey mapping within this document is provided by Cheshire County Council under licence from the Ordnance Survey, in order to fulfil its public function to make available Council held public domain information. The mapping is intended to illustrate the spatial changes that have occurred during the historical development of Cheshire towns. Persons viewing this mapping should contact Ordnance Survey copyright for advice where they wish to licence Ordnance Survey mapping/map data for their own use. The OS web site can be found at www.ordsvy.gov.uk Contents 1. ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS; INTRODUCTION 1 2. PROJECT BACKGROUND 1 3. SELECTION CRITERIA 1 4. LIST OF TOWNS COVERED BY THE PROJECT 4 5. PROJECT AIMS 5 6. LIMITATIONS OF THE PROJECT 5 7. ARCHAEOLOGICAL STRATEGIES; INTRODUCTION 6 8. PURPOSE 6 9. STATUTORY AND POLICY CONTEXT 7 10. ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORKS 9 11. DEVELOPMENT OUTSIDE THE AREA OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL 11 POTENTIAL (AAP) 1. ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS: INTRODUCTION 1.1 This report is the result of a survey of Cheshire’s historic towns, funded by English Heritage and carried out by Cheshire County Council during the period 1997-2001. In total the survey covered 37 historic towns in Cheshire and the Boroughs of Halton and Warrington. 1.2 Part 1 of the survey was an Assessment of the archaeological and historical evidence for the origin, growth and development of each of the county’s historic towns. 1.3 Part 2 of the survey was the formulation of a Strategy for the planning, conservation and management of the archaeological resource of each town. 1.4 This report contains the Archaeological Assessments for seven towns in Vale Royal Borough: Eddisbury, Frodsham, Great Budworth, Northwich, Over, Tarporley and Winsford. 2 PROJECT BACKGROUND 2.1 PPG16 Archaeology and Planning (1990) placed archaeology within the planning process, and the period since its publication has seen a significant increase in the demand for informed advice on the archaeological impact of development proposals. 2.2 In the wake of PPG16, English Heritage recognised the need to review existing policies and published ‘Managing the Urban Archaeological Resource’ (1992), in which the concept of Extensive Urban Survey (EUS) was introduced. 2.3 It was recognised by Cheshire County Council that the origins and development of towns was one of the most neglected aspects of the county’s archaeology. If informed advice were to be provided regarding the archaeological resource of the county’s urban centres, as required by PPG16, then an Archaeological Assessment or ‘Extensive Urban Survey’ of Cheshire’s historic towns was essential. 3 SELECTION CRITERIA 3.1 A large number of towns in Cheshire would have benefited from the production of an Archaeological Assessment report. However, time and resources were limited and a short list of 43, which was later reduced to 37 due to time constraints, was drawn up, based upon specific criteria. Cheshire Historic Towns Survey 1 © Cheshire County Council and English Heritage 2002 3.2 A broad definition based on Reynolds (1977, ix) has been followed - whereby a town is regarded as a permanent human settlement, a significant proportion of whose population live off a variety of non- agricultural occupations. Some of the towns in Cheshire may have only fulfilled this criteria for a short time, for example, settlements may have acquired or lost urban characteristics. 3.3 The towns were divided into four main periods: Roman, early medieval, medieval and post medieval. 3.4 Within the Roman category, the Victoria History of the County of Chester identifies four towns that were major sites in the Roman period: Heronbridge, Middlewich, Northwich and Wilderspool (Harris and Thacker 1987, 116). Grafton/Tilston was also included in the initial list as it has been suggested that it was of importance, potentially the Bovium of the Antonine Intinerary (Britannia 40, 1984, 255-7). However, as the assessment stage progressed it was felt that Grafton/Tilston and Heronbridge, although significant during the Roman period, were only marginally urban in the later periods and were therefore removed from the final list. 3.5 Within the early medieval category are four towns, three of which are described as burhs (defended settlements) in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Eddisbury, Runcorn and Thelwall. The fourth, Farndon was included as its street plan indicates an early church or monastery and a market place. It also continued to be an urban centre in the medieval and post medieval periods, as did Runcorn. Thelwall and Eddisbury were both important examples of a specific settlement type, but because neither strictly qualified as towns, it was decided to include them at the Assessment stage but not to produce a full Strategy. 3.6 Those settlements known to have had medieval market charters and/or fairs are included in the medieval category (Sylvester 1958, 27; Crosby 1996, 48; VCH Lancs Vol 3). Three additional settlements were also included in the initial list: Tarvin and Lymm, which are described as potential medieval markets in Crosby (1996, 48), and Wybunbury which possessed a medieval hospital and possibly a market. 3.7 The principal source for the post medieval towns is the 1901 census. All those towns described as urban districts were included with the exception of Hoole, which is a suburb of Chester. Chester was not included in the project as it is the subject of an Urban Archaeological Database (UAD), which will discuss the archaeology of the city in detail. Other sources examined include Burdett’s map of the County Palatinate of Chester (1777) and Pigot’s map of Cheshire (1840). Also considered were places described as towns by Ashmore (1982) and Cheshire Historic Towns Survey 2 © Cheshire County Council and English Heritage 2002 Philips and Smith (1994), which identified Disley and Tarvin as potential urban centres in the post medieval period. However, as time was limited the more marginal towns such as Disley, which was essentially a 20th century dormitory town and Tarvin, which had marginal urban status throughout the medieval and post medieval periods, were removed from the list. Cheshire Historic Towns Survey 3 © Cheshire County Council and English Heritage 2002 3 LIST OF TOWNS COVERED BY THE PROJECT Chester District: Borough of Congleton: Aldford Alsager Farndon Brereton Malpas Congleton Middlewich Sandbach Borough of Crewe & Nantwich: Borough of Ellesmere Port & Neston: Audlem Burton Bunbury Ellesmere Port Crewe Neston Nantwich Parkgate Wybunbury Halton Borough: Borough of Macclesfield: Halton Alderley Edge Farnworth Bollington Runcorn Knutsford Widnes Macclesfield Nether Alderley Wilmslow Borough of Vale Royal: Warrington Borough: Eddisbury Lymm Frodsham Warrington Great Budworth Wilderspool Northwich Thelwall Over Tarporley Winsford Cheshire Historic Towns Survey 4 © Cheshire County Council and English Heritage 2002 4 PROJECT AIMS 5.1 Archaeological Assessments 5.1.1 To produce a detailed synthesis of the historical and archaeological background for each of the historic towns. Sources used include data held by the County Sites and Monuments Record (CSMR), archaeological reports detailing the results of field work, tithe maps, historical Ordnance Survey maps, county and local histories and trade directories. 5.1.2 To examine the development of each town through analysis of urban morphology, including GIS mapping of plan components. 5.1.3 To assess the potential for the preservation, nature and extent of archaeological deposits in each town and to discuss any existing designations: Scheduled Ancient Monuments, Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas, etc. 5.1.4 To identify research objectives for the archaeology of each town. 5.2 Archaeological Strategies 5.2.1 To prepare Archaeological Strategies for each town, intended to be adopted as Supplementary Planning Guidance by the local planning authorities. 5.2.2 To identify where possible, an Area of Archaeological Potential (AAP), based upon the Archaeological Assessment report, divided into a number of Archaeological Character Zones. 5.2.3 Where an AAP cannot be designated because of the dispersed nature of a town, or because it is thought inappropriate e.g. Thelwall and Eddisbury, archaeological potential is considered in terms of sites identified in the County Sites and Monuments Record (CSMR) and not as Archaeological Character Zones. In these cases instead of a Strategy, an Archaeological Statement has been prepared, which includes a list of existing designations. 6. LIMITATIONS OF THE PROJECT 6.1 The project has run for a period of four years, over which time a number of perspectives within the archaeological community have shifted, particularly with regard to post medieval archaeology and the relationship of archaeology to built heritage. However, it was felt that Cheshire Historic Towns Survey 5 © Cheshire County Council and English Heritage 2002 the project should maintain consistency, and that changes should not be made part way through that would compromise the original project design. 6.2 The emphasis of the project is placed squarely upon the below-ground archaeological resource and its potential. It does not include an in- depth discussion of the built heritage, nor a strategy for the preservation of the above-ground resource. 7 ARCHAEOLOGICAL STRATEGIES: INTRODUCTION 1.1 This report is the result of a survey of Cheshire’s historic towns, funded by English Heritage and carried out by Cheshire County Council during the period 1997-2001.
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